A review of current defeasible reasoning implementations

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 227-260

  Bryant, Daniel ^a   Krause, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS; CURRENT STATE; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; REASONING ENGINES; RESEARCH AREA;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 51149099979     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: 14698005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888908001318     Document Type: Review

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